The entire lying, stealing, hormonally charged Puck race (including the brothers' lethally charismatic friend Robin Goodfellow) is in town for their millennial meeting - and to hold a lottery that no Puck wants to win.Īs Cal tries to keep both Niko and Robin from paying the ultimate price for their kin, a horrific reminder from Cal's own past arrives to remind him that blood is thicker than water.

Yet an even more dangerous reunion is in the works. He needs a favour, and if Niko refuses, it just might doom the entire city. That headache belongs to his half-brother, Niko. But for once, it's not his relatives causing the trouble. If anyone knows that having family isn't always a good thing, it's half-human/ half-living nightmare Cal Leandros. I had the hot poker scars of that burned into my flesh, but, scars or not, sometimes family was all you had worth playing with. Visit Rob at latest book in the Cal Leandros series that began with Nightlife, Doubletake is clever, ironic and hugely entertaining urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris by the New York Times bestselling author, Rob Thurman. Nightlife, the first novel in the Cal Leandros series is also published by Penguin. Rob Thurman lives in Indiana, land of rolling hills and cows.

it's sharp and sardonic, mischievous and mysterious' Simon R. Fans of dark urban fantasy will certainly want to follow Cal's adventures. 'Supernatural elements put this in the company of Jim Butcher and Charlaine Harris. Ī stunning urban fantasy with a deeply humorous edge, Rob Thurman's Madhouse is not to be missed. if they survive to collect it.īut this evil might be too much for even Cal and Niko to handle, and to take it on, Cal will have to call forth the powerful talents he inherited from his unhuman father's side of the family. And for Cal and Niko, this is one paycheck they're going to have to earn. A malevolent evil with ancient powers, dead set on making history with an orgy of blood and murder, is on a human killing spree. Who could have guessed that business would dry up in New York City, where vampires, trolls, and other creepy crawlies are all over the place?īut now there's a new arrival in the Big Apple. Half-human Cal Leandros and his brother, Niko, aren't exactly prospering with their preternatural detective agency. With his help, I'd finally realized that as long as I could remain who I was, I could survive what I was. 'My brother had spent a lifetime - mine, at least - telling me that I was normal, that I wasn't a monster. The next book in the Cal Leandros series that began with Nightlife, Madhouse is a clever and hugely entertaining urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher by New York Times bestselling author, Rob Thurman.

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